Looking for something to inspire your local choir or choral society? Our extensive range of choral repertoire includes works for Mixed Choir, Male Voice Choir, Female Voice Choir, Children’s & Youth Choirs, and Senior’s Choir, singing a Capella, with piano accompaniment, and with various other ensembles up to full orchestra.
Choral singing began to take form in the 9th & 10th Centuries, with the unison Gregorian Chant or Plain Chant. From the early Renaissance period, through composers like Palestrina , di Lasso and William Byrd true polyphonic choral music blossomed, and crescendo-ed through to a wonderful climax with Thomas Tallis’ Spem in alium for 40 parts, divided into 8 choirs.
As the form developed through the Renaissance into the Baroque period, composers such as Bach, Telemann and Händel gave the choir more and more autonomy, and through early operas and oratorios, married solo voices, choirs and orchestras together, to create these new musical forms, and inspired audiences with combinations of colours and sounds they had never before experienced.
Although there were many operas and oratorios written in the Classical period, sacred music also took a prominent role in shaping the development of choral music. While the chorus became a very useful tool on stage, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven composed many Masses, Requiems, Te Deums and Anthems to help brighten the world of church music, and uplift the hearts and souls of the congregation.
As opera continued to expand and stretch dramatic boundaries, choral music of the Romantic period was characterised by choral motets and anthems, and the oratorio grew into an even more varied and contrasting form. The oratorios Elijah and Paul are particularly noteworthy, since despite using Sacred themes, through the various musical facets at Mendelssohn’s disposal, they began to take on a much more operatic narrative. This can also be seen in the Requiems of Brahms and Verdi, where the choir itself, along with the orchestra, lead the dramatic storytelling.
Through the 20th Century, composers such as Ralf Vaughan Williams, Anton Webern, Arnold Schönberg, Benjamin Britten and Edward Elgar composed extensively for varying choral forces. Through these composers and many others, we begin to see choirs being tested and stretched, both technically and dramatically, and being pushed out of their comfort zone in order to inspire, shock and entice the audience. Works like Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius and Schönberg’s Friede auf Erden made a huge impact on the choral landscape.
In the modern era, new choral genres such as Gospel Choir, Pop Ensembles and Jazz & Swing emerged. Composers like John Rutter, Karl Jenkins, Bob Chilcott and Andrew Lloyd Webber have become very popular.
for: Women's choir (SSSAAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695450
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1627741
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1627716
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 1160997
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for: Women's choir [children's choir] a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 664593
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 428480
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 673116
Es erhub sich ein Streit
Cantata at St Michael and All Angels
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 328318
for: Mixed choir (SATB), children's choir, organ, small orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 684365
for: Male choir, guitar
Score
Item no.: 638629
for: Male choir, guitar
Score
Item no.: 638589
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 910247
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 355127
Medley from "Whole Lotta Faintin' Goin' On"
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 347093
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 470130
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 289959
for: Children's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 255900
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 798377
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 765910
"The harp that once thro' Tarra's halls"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [harp, string orchestra]
Score
Item no.: 352057
A Requiem "for those we love"
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 288684
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB), 2 pianos
Score
Item no.: 352331
CD for use with the SSA Voicing complete and accompaniment only
ShowTrax CD
for: Women's choir, piano
CD
Item no.: 194411
for mixed choruses
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 564239
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 260596
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285560
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285415
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 889530
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 471515
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 447136
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 330478
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 301476
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 143373
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 317727
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317539
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 746329
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Music score, CD
Item no.: 674175
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1087126
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1087070
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 377857
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 429276
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 905590
Traditional Sea Shanty for three-parte mixed chorus a cappella
Choral Music Experience
for: Mixed choir (3 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 461433
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 300644
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano [accordion]
Score
Item no.: 341317
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 643753
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902948
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